Eubotrys racemosus information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Eubotrys racemosus (L.) Nutt.

Genus: Eubotrys
Family: Ericaceae subfamily: Vaccinioideae tribe: Gaultherieae.
Nomen number: 413256
Place of publication: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 8:269. 1842
Name verified on: 02-Jan-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 03-Mar-2013
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.

Common names:

fetterbush (Source: Castanea 42:133.1996 [as Leucothoe racemosa]) – English
sommarrosling (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish

Economic importance:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Pennsylvania [e.], Rhode Island
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

References:

Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
Luteyn, J. L. et al. 1996. Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:134. [= Leucothoe racemosa (L.) A. Gray].
Waselkov, K. & W. S. Judd. 2008. A phylogenetic analysis of Leucothoe s.l. (Ericaceae; tribe Gaultherieae) based on phenotypic characters. Brittonia 60:382–397.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eubotrys racemosus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eubotrys racemosus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eubotrys racemosus.

Synonyms:

(≡) Andromeda racemosa L. (basionym)
(≡) Leucothoe racemosa (L.) A. Gray

Check other web resources for Eubotrys racemosus (L.) Nutt.:

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?413256 (23 May 2013)

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